Lecturers

Lecturer 8

Martin Rein-Cano was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He studied Art History at Frankfurt University and Landscape Architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He trained in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco. In 1996 he founded TOPOTEK 1. Martin Rein-Cano has been appointed as a guest professor in Europe and North America. He frequently lectures at internationally renowned universities and cultural institutions and regularly serves on competition juries. He partakes in a wide variety of international projects and has achieved the first prize in various competitions. Several professional books and articles have been published exclusively on his work, which has been honoured with many awards and prizes.

Lecturer 8

Architect specialized in Garden Art and Landscape Architecture, Phd in Landscape Architecture, lives in Florence. She obtained the European Master in Architectonic and Urban Restoration at the E.T.S.A.M. (Madrid), the ICOMOS-IFLA diploma in Historic Garden Conservation and the qualification of Historic Garden and Park Restoration at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence. She is author of “Fare parchi urbani”, special mention at the International Prize Hambury-Grinzane Cavour 2005.

Lecturer 2, 3 and 8

Professor and researcher in the Department of Geography, and the Science and Environmental Technology Institute (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Main fields of research: global environmental change; urban and forest biodiversity; environmental communication. In 1995, he received the 500 Global Prize of United Nations.

Jury Rosa Barba 4

His practice is based in Camorino, Switzerland; is adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and professor-researcher at the IUAV University in Venice. Recent projects in Switzerland include the August Piccard Space in Sierre, the Acca-demia di Architettura Space in Mendrisio or the significant Cardada Mountain Revitalization project in Locarno. He has participated in national and international competitions and lectured in Canada, USA and throughout Europe. His international activities include seminars and studios for the City of Philadelphia, Genova, Padova, Pesaro, the Island of Torcello and the Mountain Village of Bosco Gurin. Bürgi was awarded with diferents prizes like as the ‘European Prize in Landscape architecture Rosa Barba’ in 2003 for the Cardada projec

Maria Gabriella Trovato is Assistant Professor in the LDEM Department at the American University of Beirut. She had a Phd in 2003 at the University of Reggio Calabria and the University of Naples in Landscape Architecture: Parks, Gardens and Spatial Planning. Maria Gabriella most recent researches focuses on MEDSCAPES project ENPI/CBCMED, on Landscape Atlas for Lebanon, and on Urban and Peri-urban landscape in the Middle East and North Africa. Currently working on Landscape in emergency research with special focus on Syrian crisis in Lebanon. She has worked in several countries including Italy, Morocco, Tunisia and Canada, and was lead partner in EU-research programs.

Dan Lewis is the Chief of the Urban Risk Reduction Unit, UN-Habitat, Kenya. He has worked for UN-Habitat since 1997 based in Somalia, Kosovo and Nairobi, and has managed the global portfolio of disaster and conflict related work of the Agency since 2002. As a civil engineer and private consultant, he has worked in urban reconstruction and housing programmes in South Africa and Chile as well as with First Nations communities in his home region on Vancouver Island, Canada since 1987. He is currently leading the development of a new UN-Habitat global programme designing new standards for measuring and monitoring urban resilience. The City Resilience Profiling Programme, and its associated projects and team, are based in the Risk Reduction Unit’s programme office in Barcelona, Spain.

Kate Orff’s activist and visionary work on design for climate dynamics has been shared and developed in collaboration with arts institutions, governments, and scholars worldwide. She teaches design studios and interdisciplinary seminars at Columbia University focused on sustainable development, biodiversity, and community-based change. Kate is also a registered landscape architect and the founder of SCAPE, an award-winning landscape architecture and urban design office based in New York City. She is also the author of Toward an Urban Ecology, (Monacelli, 2016) a new book about the SCAPE practice.

Tomàs Molina Bosch degree in physics and journalist collegiate member, is meteorological chief of TV3, director of a television program named “Espai i Terra”, associate professor of the UB, member of the administrative council of the Meteorological Service of Catalonia, vice president of the International Association of Climate Broadcasters Meteorology, among other institutions. Known as television worker since 1987 at the meteorological service, won several awards for his informative work Micrófono de plata (2002), Premi Zapping for best spanish TV presenter (2012), Academia Española de TV award as best Regional TV program for Espai i Terra. Tomas Molina has published “Tu, jo i el Medi Ambient”, “Cuentos del Cielo y la Tierra”, and several children’s stories as “El año que mi abuelo vió llover” dealing with the effects of climate change in Spain.

Lecturer 6 and 9

Dirk Sijmons worked at several Ministries and the State Forestry Service. In 1990 he was one of the founders of H+N+S Landscape-architects. H+N+S received the Prince Bernard Culture award in 2001. In 2002 he received the Rotterdam-Maaskant award. His book publications in English are: Landscape (1998), Greetings from Europe (2008) and Landscape and Energy (2014). Sijmons was appointed first State Landscape Architect of the Netherlands (2004-2008). He held the chair of Environmental Design (2008-2011) and that of Landscape Architecture (2011-2015) at the TU-Delft. Dirk Sijmons was the curator of IABR-2014 with the theme Urban-by-Nature.

Bernadette Blanchon: arquitecta, Profesora Asociada en la Escuela Nacional Superior de Paisaje de Versalles e investigadora en LAREP. Ha colaborado con el «Bureau des Paysages», dirigido por el paisajista A. Chemetoff. Ella ha contribuido a varias publicaciones y ha dado conferencias en congresos internacionales y diversas universidades . Es editora y fundadora de la revista académica JoLA , Journal of Landscape Architecture en la que ha estado a cargo hasta el 2014 de la sección “Under the sky”.